期刊名称:INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION & LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal

Journal History
Founded in 1970, IJPDLM is now in its fifth decade and was previously published as International Journal of Physical Distribution. Follow the Table of Contents link above for previous content.
The International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management:
- Provides business practitioners, consultants and academics with leading edge information and discussions of current developments in the field
- Facilitates the interchange of information among business planners and researchers on a worldwide basis
- Provides a platform for new thinking on problems and techniques in physical distribution and logistics management
IJPDLM'S Mission
The International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management aims to be the principal home the world comes to for leading edge research bridging strategic areas of business-to-business management, physical distribution, business logistics, marketing channels, and supply chain management. We strive to achieve this by providing authors with “best in class” service through timeliness and fairness in the review process, inclusiveness, receptivity to different perspectives, and ultimately impact.
Key journal audiences
- Academics teaching and researching in logistics and supply chain management strategy
- Logistics and supply chain management professionals
- Business-to-business marketing and distribution academics and professionals
- Libraries supplying academics, researchers and practitioners
Topicality
IJPDLM seeks strategically focused, theoretically grounded, empirical and conceptual, quantitative and qualitative, rigorous and relevant, original research studies in logistics, physical distribution and supply chain management operations and associated strategic issues. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Customer service and distribution
- Order processing and inventory management
- Implementation of supply chain processes
- Information and communication technology
- Sourcing and procurement
- Risk management and security
- Personnel recruitment and training
- Sustainability and environmental
- Collaboration and integration
- Global supply chain management and network complexity
- Information and knowledge management
- Legal, financial and public policy
- Retailing, channels and business-to-business management
- Organizational and human resource development
- Logistics and SCM education
The International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management is indexed and abstracted in:
- ISI: Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- ISI: Social Science Citation Index
- Scopus
- Business Source Premier
- Academic OneFile
- Business Insights: Essentials
- ABI/INFORM Complete
- Research Library Complete
- Web of Science
- CSCMP Online Logistics Bibliography
- Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management & Marketing
Instructions to Authors
Submissions to International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and peer review system. Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijpdlm. Full information and guidance on using ScholarOne Manuscripts is available at the Emerald ScholarOne Manuscripts Support Centre: http://msc.emeraldinsight.com.
Instructions on how to register and submit your article are provided below.
Please direct any queries concerning your submission to ijpdlm@cba.ua.edu
When submitting to a special issue, please follow the instructions provided in the call for papers.
Registering on ScholarOne Manuscripts
If you have not yet registered on ScholarOne Manuscripts, please follow the instructions below:
- Please log on to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijpdlm
- Click on Create Account
- Follow the on-screen instructions, filling in the requested details before proceeding
- Your username will be your email address and you have to input a password of at least 8 characters in length and containing two or more numbers
- Click Finish and your account has been created.
Submitting an article to International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management on ScholarOne Manuscripts
- Please log on to International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijpdlm with your username and password. This will take you through to the Welcome page (To consult the Author Guidelines for this journal, click on the Home Page link in the Resources column)
- Click on the Author Centre button
- Click on the submit a manuscript link which will take you through to the Manuscript Submission page
- Complete all fields and browse to upload your article
- When all required sections are completed, preview your .pdf proof
- Submit your manuscript
Review process
Each paper is reviewed by the editor and, if it is judged suitable for this publication, it is then sent to at least two independent referees for double blind peer review. Based on their recommendation, as well as consultation between relevant Editorial Board members the editor then decides whether the paper should be accepted as is, revised or rejected.
Copyright
Articles submitted to the journal should not have been published before in their current or substantially similar form, or be under consideration for publication with another journal. Please see Emerald's originality guidelines for details. Use this in conjunction with the points below about references, before submission i.e. always attribute clearly using either indented text or quote marks as well as making use of the preferred Harvard style of formatting. Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty. For ease of dissemination and to ensure proper policing of use, papers and contributions become the legal copyright of the publisher unless otherwise agreed.
The editor may make use of iThenticate software for checking the originality of submissions received. Please see our press release for further details.
Permissions
Prior to article submission, authors should clear permission to use any content that has not been created by them. Failure to do so may lead to lengthy delays in publication. Emerald is unable to publish any article which has permissions pending. The rights Emerald require are:
- Non-exclusive rights to reproduce the material in the article or book chapter.
- Print and electronic rights.
- Worldwide English language rights.
- To use the material for the life of the work (i.e. there should be no time restrictions on the re-use of material e.g. a one-year licence).
When reproducing tables, figures or excerpts (of more than 400 words) from another source, it is expected that:
- Authors obtain the necessary written permission in advance from any third party owners of copyright for the use in print and electronic formats of any of their text, illustrations, graphics, or other material, in their manuscript. Permission must also be cleared for any minor adaptations of any work not created by them.
- If an author adapts significantly any material, the author must inform the copyright holder of the original work.
- Authors obtain any proof of consent statements
- Authors must always acknowledge the source in figure captions and refer to the source in the reference list.
- Authors should not assume that any content which is freely available on the web is free to use. Authors should check the website for details of the copyright holder to seek permission for re-use.
Emerald is a member of the STM Association and participates in the reciprocal free exchange of material with other STM members. This may mean that in some cases, authors do not need to clear permission for re-use of content. If so, please highlight this upon submission. For more information and additional help, please follow the Permissions for your Manuscript guide.
COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)
All of Emerald’s journals benefit from COPE membership (see: http://www.publicationethics.org/). COPE provides advice to editors and publishers on all aspects of publication ethics and, in particular, how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. This means that Emerald adheres to high ethical standards in publishing.
Emerald Literati Network Editing Service
The Emerald Literati Network can recommend, via our Editing Service, a number of freelance copy editors, all themselves experienced authors, to contributors who wish to improve the standard of English in their paper before submission. This is particularly useful for those whose first language is not English.
Final submission
Authors should note that proofs are not supplied prior to publication. The manuscript will be considered to be the definitive version of the article. The author must ensure that it is complete, grammatically correct and without spelling or typographical errors. Before submitting, authors should check their submission completeness using the available Article Submission Checklist.
Manuscript requirements
Please prepare your manuscript before submission, using the following guidelines:
| Format |
All files should be submitted as a Word document |
| Article Length |
Articles should be a maximum of 10000 words in length including references, figures and tables. |
| Article Title |
A title of not more than eight words should be provided. |
| Article Title Page |
An Article Title Page should be submitted alongside each individual article using the template provided. This should include:
- Article Title
- Author Details (see below)
- Acknowledgements
- Author Biographies
- Structured Abstract (see below)
- Keywords (see below)
- Article Classification (see below)
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| Author Details |
Details should be supplied on the Article Title Page including:
- Full name of each author
- Affiliation of each author, at time research was completed
- Where more than one author has contributed to the article, details of who should be contacted for correspondence
- E-mail address of the corresponding author
- Brief professional biography of each author.
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| Structured Abstract |
Authors must supply a structured abstract on the Article Title Page, set out under 4-7 sub-headings (see our "How to... write an abstract" guide for practical help and guidance):
- Purpose (mandatory)
- Design/methodology/approach (mandatory)
- Findings (mandatory)
- Research limitations/implications (if applicable)
- Practical implications (if applicable)
- Social implications (if applicable)
- Originality/value (mandatory)
Maximum is 250 words in total (including keywords and article classification, see below). |
| Keywords |
Please provide up to 10 keywords on the Article Title Page, which encapsulate the principal topics of the paper (see our "How to... ensure your article is highly downloaded" guide for practical help and guidance on choosing search-engine friendly keywords).
Whilst we will endeavour to use submitted keywords in the published version, all keywords are subject to approval by Emerald’s in house editorial team and may be replaced by a matching term to ensure consistency. |
| Article Classification |
Categorize your paper on the Article Title Page, under one of these classifications:
- Research paper
- Viewpoint
- Technical paper
- Conceptual paper
- Case study
- Literature review
- General review.
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| Headings |
Headings must be concise, with a clear indication of the distinction between the hierarchy of headings.
The preferred format is for first level headings to be presented in bold format and subsequent sub-headings to be presented in medium italics. |
| Notes/Endnotes |
Notes or Endnotes should be used only if absolutely necessary and must be identified in the text by consecutive numbers, enclosed in square brackets and listed at the end of the article. |
| Research Funding |
Authors must declare all sources of external research funding in their article and a statement to this effect should appear in the Acknowledgements section. Authors should describe the role of the funder or financial sponsor in the entire research process, from study design to submission. |
| Figures |
All Figures (charts, diagrams, line drawings, web pages/screenshots, and photographic images) should be submitted in electronic form.
All Figures should be of high quality, legible and numbered consecutively with arabic numerals. Graphics may be supplied in colour to facilitate their appearance on the online database.
- Figures created in MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, Illustrator should be supplied in their native formats. Electronic figures created in other applications should be copied from the origination software and pasted into a blank MS Word document or saved and imported into an MS Word document or alternatively create a .pdf file from the origination software.
- Figures which cannot be supplied in as the above are acceptable in the standard image formats which are: .pdf, .ai, and .eps. If you are unable to supply graphics in these formats then please ensure they are .tif, .jpeg, or .bmp at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide.
- To prepare web pages/screenshots simultaneously press the "Alt" and "Print screen" keys on the keyboard, open a blank Microsoft Word document and simultaneously press "Ctrl" and "V" to paste the image. (Capture all the contents/windows on the computer screen to paste into MS Word, by simultaneously pressing "Ctrl" and "Print screen".)
- Photographic images should be submitted electronically and of high quality. They should be saved as .tif or .jpeg files at a resolution of at least 300dpi and at least 10cm wide. Digital camera settings should be set at the highest resolution/quality possible.
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| Tables |
Tables should be typed and included in a separate file to the main body of the article. The position of each table should be clearly labelled in the body text of article with corresponding labels being clearly shown in the separate file.
Ensure that any superscripts or asterisks are shown next to the relevant items and have corresponding explanations displayed as footnotes to the table, figure or plate. |
| References |
References to other publications must be in Harvard style and carefully checked for completeness, accuracy and consistency. This is very important in an electronic environment because it enables your readers to exploit the Reference Linking facility on the database and link back to the works you have cited through CrossRef.
You should cite publications in the text: (Adams, 2006) using the first named author's name or (Adams and Brown, 2006) citing both names of two, or (Adams et al., 2006), when there are three or more authors. At the end of the paper a reference list in alphabetical order should be supplied: |
| For books |
Surname, Initials (year), Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication.
e.g. Harrow, R. (2005), No Place to Hide, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY. |
| For book chapters |
Surname, Initials (year), "Chapter title", Editor's Surname, Initials, Title of Book, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
e.g. Calabrese, F.A. (2005), "The early pathways: theory to practice – a continuum", in Stankosky, M. (Ed.), Creating the Discipline of Knowledge Management, Elsevier, New York, NY, pp. 15-20. |
| For journals |
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", Journal Name, volume, number, pages.
e.g. Capizzi, M.T. and Ferguson, R. (2005), "Loyalty trends for the twenty-first century", Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 72-80. |
For published conference proceedings |
Surname, Initials (year of publication), "Title of paper", in Surname, Initials (Ed.), Title of published proceeding which may include place and date(s) held, Publisher, Place of publication, Page numbers.
e.g. Jakkilinki, R., Georgievski, M. and Sharda, N. (2007), "Connecting destinations with an ontology-based e-tourism planner", in Information and communication technologies in tourism 2007 proceedings of the international conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2007, Springer-Verlag, Vienna, pp. 12-32. |
For unpublished conference proceedings |
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of paper", paper presented at Name of Conference, date of conference, place of conference, available at: URL if freely available on the internet (accessed date).
e.g. Aumueller, D. (2005), "Semantic authoring and retrieval within a wiki", paper presented at the European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 29 May-1 June, Heraklion, Crete, available at: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/aumueller05wiksar.pdf (accessed 20 February 2007). |
| For working papers |
Surname, Initials (year), "Title of article", working paper [number if available], Institution or organization, Place of organization, date.
e.g. Moizer, P. (2003), "How published academic research can inform policy decisions: the case of mandatory rotation of audit appointments", working paper, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds, 28 March. |
For encyclopedia entries (with no author or editor) |
Title of Encyclopedia (year) "Title of entry", volume, edition, Title of Encyclopedia, Publisher, Place of publication, pages.
e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1926) "Psychology of culture contact", Vol. 1, 13th ed., Encyclopaedia Britannica, London and New York, NY, pp. 765-71.
(For authored entries please refer to book chapter guidelines above) |
For newspaper articles (authored) |
Surname, Initials (year), "Article title", Newspaper, date, pages.
e.g. Smith, A. (2008), "Money for old rope", Daily News, 21 January, pp. 1, 3-4. |
For newspaper articles (non-authored) |
Newspaper (year), "Article title", date, pages.
e.g. Daily News (2008), "Small change", 2 February, p. 7. |
| For electronic sources |
If available online, the full URL should be supplied at the end of the reference, as well as a date that the resource was accessed.
e.g. Castle, B. (2005), "Introduction to web services for remote portlets", available at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-wsrp/ (accessed 12 November 2007).
Standalone URLs, i.e. without an author or date, should be included either within parentheses within the main text, or preferably set as a note (roman numeral within square brackets within text followed by the full URL address at the end of the paper). |
Editorial Board
Editor
Alexander E. Ellinger Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, The University of Alabama, PO Box 870225, 361 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0225, USA aellinge@cba.ua.edu
Editorial Assistant
Lauren Kiser Culverhouse College of Commerce & Business Administration, The University of Alabama, USA ijpdlm@cba.ua.edu
Senior Associate Editors
Donna Davis University of South Florida, USA donnadavis@usf.edu
Mark Johnson Associate Professor of Operations Management, Warwick Business School, UK mark.johnson@wbs.ac.uk
Patrik Jonsson Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden patrik.jonsson@chalmers.se
Diane Mollenkopf University of Tennesse at Knoxville, USA mollenkopf@utk.edu
Maria Jesus Saenz Zaragoza Logistics Centre, Spain mjsaenz@zlc.edu.es
Rodney Thomas Texas Tech University, USA rodney.thomas@ttu.edu
Regional Editor - Asia
Shong-Iee Ivan Su Soochow University, Taiwan (Republic of China) sisu@scu.edu.tw
Managing Editor
Samantha Thompson sthompson@emeraldinsight.com
Publisher
Patti Davis pdavis@emeraldinsight.com
Editorial Advisory BoardFrank Adams, Mississippi State University, USA Jan Albjørn, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Chad W. Autry, University of Tennessee, USA Anu Bask, Aalto University, Denmark Lauren Beitelspacher, Portland State University, USA Jyotirmoyee Bhattacharjya, University of Sydney, Australia Maria Björklund, Linköping University, Sweden Jennifer Blackhurst, Iowa State University, USA Edgar Blanco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA James H. Bookbinder, University of Waterloo, Canada Michael Browne, University of Westminster, UK Christian Busse, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Craig R. Carter, Arizona State University, USA Karen Chapman, Univeristy of Alabama, USA Haozhe Chen, East Carolina University, USA Martin Christopher, Cranfield School of Management, UK David J. Closs, Michigan State University, USA Thomas M. Corsi, University of Maryland, USA Michael R Crum, Iowa State University, USA Alex da Mota Pedrosa, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Marina Dabic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Inga-Lena Darkow, University of Bremen, Germany Patricia J. Daugherty, Michigan State University, USA Jan de Vries, University of Groningen, Netherlands George Deitz, University of Memphis, USA John Dinwoodie, University of Plymouth Business School, UK Joachim Ehrenthal, Log Connect AG, Switzerland Lisa M Ellram, Miami University of Ohio, USA Philip T Evers, University of Maryland, USA Nathalie Fabbe-Costes, University of the Mediterranean, France John Fernie, Heriot Watt University, UK Daniel Flint, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA Helena Forslund, Linnaeus University, Sweden Robert Frankel, University of North Florida, USA Britta Gammelgaard, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Richard N. Germain, University of Louisville, USA Brian Gibson, Auburn University, USA Cristina Gimenez, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain Janet Godsell, Warwick Business School, UK Thomas J Goldsby, The Ohio State University, USA Susan Golicic, Colorado State University, USA Rich Gooner, University of Georgia, USA David B. Grant, University of Hull, UK Scott Grawe, Iowa State University, USA Stanley Griffis, Michigan State University, USA Árni Halldórsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Trond Hammervol, Harstad University College, Norway Evi Hartmann, Freidrich Alexander University, Germany Benjamin Hazen, Auburn University, USA Graham Heaslip, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland Remko van Hoek, Cranfield University, UK Juliana Hsuan, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Marianne Jahre, BI Norwegian School & Lund University, Norway Lutz Kaufmann, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany Scott B Keller, The University of West Florida, USA Timothy Kiessling, Bond University, Australia A Michael Knemeyer, The Ohio State University, USA Gyöngyi Kovács, Hanken School of Economics, Finland Douglas M Lambert, The Ohio State University, USA Paul Larson, University of Manitoba, Canada John Mangan, Newcastle University, UK Gino Marchet, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alan C McKinnon, Kühne Logistics University, Germany John Mello, Arkansas State University, USA David Menachof, Logistics Institute, Business School, University of Hull, UK Vahid Mirzabeiki, Cranfield University, UK Paul R. Murphy, John Carroll University, USA Dag Naslund, University of North Florida, USA Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University, USA Andreas Norrman, Lund University, Sweden Gilbert Nyaga, Northeastern University, USA Richard Oloruntoba, University of Newcastle, Australia John Ozment, University of Arkansas, USA Photis Panayides, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Ely Laureano Pavia, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil Stephen Pettit, Cardiff University, UK Ram Mohan Pisharodi, Oakland University, USA Shashank Rao, Auburn University, USA R. Glenn Richey, Jr, The University of Alabama, USA Dale S Rogers, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Russo, University of Verona, Italy Katrina Savitskie, Savannah State University, USA Peter Schmitz, CSIR Built Environment, South Africa Paola Signori, University of Verona, Italy Mohan Sodhi, Cass Business School, UK Amrik Sohal, Monash University, Australia Dong-Wook Song, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Karen Spens, Hanken School of Economics, Finland Theodore Stank, The University of Tennessee, USA Gunnar Stefansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden James R. Stock, University of South Florida, USA Frank Straube, Berlin University of Technology, Germany Edward Sweeney, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland Peter Tatham, Griffith Business School, Australia Mert Tokman, James Madison University, USA Shiri D. Vivek, Eastern Michigan University, USA Douglas Voss, Central Arkansas University, USA Stephan Wagner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Carl Marcus Wallenburg, WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany Matt Waller, University of Arkansas, USA Judith Whipple, Michigan State University, USA Andreas Wieland, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany Liu Xiaohung, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Zhilin (Forrest) Yang, City of Hong Kong University, People's Republic of China
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